When examining the sounds of language, consonants and vowels receive the bulk of the attention. However, above these segments lives a parallel world called ‘spoken language prosody’. Such phenomena include stress, rhythm, intonation, tone, phrasing, and more. In this course, you will be trained in how to hear contrasts in prosody, learn how to transcribe these contrasts, learn how to dissect the inner components using the latest linguistic phonetics software, and analyze these contrasts within a language’s grammar. This course will involve a mix of lectures, intensive in-class and at-home problem sets, and your own data collection.
